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You know, those bands that plough on through umpteen line-up changes/reinventions, etc without splitting. Pumping out album after album with ever diminishing returns.

Your starter for 10: Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you WEEZER.

I was a fan, I own all of the CD singles from Blue and Pinkerton, bought Blue, Pinkerton, Green, Maladroit and Make Believe on their respective release dates and kept on daring to believe long after the weight of evidence was against them.

although their last single turned out to be their greatest so I dunno whether they'd been saving that one for years of whether they just though 'shit, never gonna write a better song than this and Liam's always been a knob.' and packed it in.

They'd still be ultra loaded and could have come back for a 10/15 year ultramegagigantodome world tour plus live DVD/greatest hits package......we would have been spared all of that silliness over Napster too.

Big fan, loved the progression through to Adore but never got into Machina, then they ended. While I buy the stuff about Billy and Jimmy being the creative force during the glory days, there just seems to be too much baggage around the reunion, as well as average material which certainly does nothing for the reputation.

Conversely Green Day and U2 have gone through commercially and critically successful regenerations that won them a whole new legion of fans so even as a non fan it's a bit wrong to say they went on too long.

Ultimately you ask yourself would you prefer if a band had a short but amazing period (say MBV) and never released music again with their reputation intact or would you prefer the band to continue after that point, even if you only get a couple of songs on each subsequent album which are up to the standard of previous material (Weezer- maybe slightly generous).

but A Thousand Leaves, Murray Street, Sonic Nurse and Rather Ripped are all fucking amazing.

i can give or take the run of records between Daydream Nation and A Thousand Leaves though, maybe they should have taken a decade out to chillax. the 80's and 00's output is really great and consistent though.

If they stuck it out with the noise stuff they'd probably not make enough money to live the lives they're accustomed to.
Not that I assume they're rich or anything.
I dunno, I really hated saying it cos I really do love them but they WERE totally amazing and the majority of the reason why I got into music. But now, well - not so much.

only problem is their normal studio albums have settled into a kind of rut, where each one has a similar feel to the previous. They used to try different sounds out with each album up until 'Murray Street'.

Still think 'Rather Ripped' is one of their best and the last one is pretty good, but I'd like them to go somewhere else on their next one. I don't have very high hopes of them doing that though.

Their latest album 'Coaster' is brilliant, some of their strongest and best songs. NOFX have only been going from strength to strength. So Long And Thanks For All The Shoes = awesome, Pump Up The Valuum = awesome, War on Errorism = awesome.

Or together. They should do this reunion tour and fuck off. They've influenced a bunch of people, significantly contributed to pop culture, now are in it for the cash and are getting it. They should call it quits for real. Especially Frank Black, Black Francis, whatever the hell he calls himself.

I think their first 3 albums are really good, and I still kind of like their stuff, but they just seem to spend their time re-making 'The Colour aand The Shape' repeatedly, with bigger production each time, but more and more lifeless. And their Wings impressions on the last album were a new low.

Primal Scream yet. They're usually an easy target. Still a great live band but the last couple of records have sucked baby balls. Thank God there's the Screamadelica shows on the horizon to bring back the good times.

I agree neither TLP or DCW are as good as any of their 1st 3. But even if they aren't able make a 'classic' album anymore (not that i think they can't), wouldn't you still be glad to get 3 great B and S songs on a patchy album? I mean, you can just skip the stuff you don't like

NO SACRED COWS...
Bjork
Sigur Ros
Coldplay
Gorillaz
All things Jack White
The New New York Dolls
Pretenders, whatever that may be at the moment
Eminem
Manics
The Who
Patti Smith
Pearl Jam
REM
Springsteen
Bon Jovi
... etc

Sigur Ros - the only thing left is to go so slow they go BACKWARDS
Gorillaz - Albarn looks like my ex-boss who I want to push down a flight of stairs - so I guess I'm prejudiced.
Eminem - I'm from Detroit, to us he's just a white trash poser. Our city's FULL of 'em, Jack White, Seger, Kid Rock,...
Manics - someone hide that old queen's makeup
Actually, I don't care who makes records anymore, or for how long. I just won't buy 'em.